the state department saying we can't give you any thing. the state refused to provide those documents and over the last several months, my staff has been trying to negotiate with them to get the material, but it still hasn't been successful. as recently as wednesday, november 8th, state department refused to resume full cooperation, refused to permit unrestricted access to its employees and implementing partners, refused to rescind the prior directive to the employees not to talk and refused to direct its employees and implementing partners that they are required to cooperate. we actually send them a memorandum and they scratched out all of those things. >> my time is expired. i am horrified at this reckless disregard of the inspector general and you and the entire process here. it is just a disregard of their responsibility to congress and to you our auditor so i look forward to any information you want to share. i have a lot more questions i will submit for the record, but thank you and i am so sorry for what you have been through. >> than

i don't want a report from the state department. i don't know i don't want to know how u.s. military aid in israel is being used. i don't want to know what responsibility the united states may have for this humanitarian disaster. i want to keep my head in the sand. i don't want to see what's going on. and, frankly, mr. president, no matter what your view on this terrible war may be, you agree with me, you don't agree with me, we cannot bury our eyes in the sand. the truth is that since that terrible day on october 7, when hamas attacked israel, the senate has had little meaningful debate on this war despite the horrific toll and the deep concerns of many americans. we have passed symbolic resolutions, but we have not considered a single measure that grapples with the unprecedented destruction, the humanitarian crisis, or the use of american weapons in a military campaign that has left so many dead, wounded, and displaced. no matter what happens on this vote, i know that this will not be the end of this debate. it is just the beginning. and finally, mr. president, i would like

that's why i think the state department is not only crucial to this effort, the state department must be a leader in global a.i. governance efforts. the state department has valuable data, that data has not always been well organized or used to its fullest potential. this includes real time information from embasses and diplomats -- embassies and diplomats around the world, it includes economic trends. this is highly valuable information. you know how much we are trying to gather information today and how valuable that is for the private sector. state needs to unlock the insights from this novel data and you have the work force to do just that. the department has concentrated on public servants with advanced degrees that go beyond foreign policy. your data science experts will be vital in this effort. our diplomats also must be involved as we manage our a.i. competition with nations like china and russia. diplomats know how to take on complex and multifaceted problems. they know how to balance competing ideas when making policy. and most importantly, american diplomats know how to dri

that's why i think the state department is not only crucial to this effort, the state department must be a leader in global a.i. governance. a.i. has data, this includes realtime information from embassies and diplomats stationed around the world including the u.n. records and economic trends. this is highly valuable information. you know how much we are trying to gather information today and how valuable that is for the private sector. state needs to unlock the insides from this novel data and you have the work force to do just that. the department has concentrated public servants with advanced degrees and go beyond foreign policies. your data science experts are going to be vital in this effort. our diplomats must also be involved as we continue to with china and russia. and most importantly american diplomats know how to drive an agenda based on american valueless. values that need to be part of the ai revolution. values that protect people's privacy. values that lead to democratic elections, respect for human rights and peace and security for people around the world. if we're goin

the state department says it means - redesignation means? it means bringing accountability to the houthis. as terrorism. but it is also designed to try and give the state some powers to take action against people that would give material support to the houthi. it is a lower level as those that are more commonly use. significantly, i don't think this will have any major impact on the houthis on the ground. that is because they already face significant sanctions, visa travel bans and are very limited and isolated in terms of what they can do. most of their funding isolated in terms of what they can do. most of theirfunding is linda stein anyway. they come in from networks that the us already have this mental —— is clandestine. when you're talking about this, the real message from the us has not been around terrorism designation, but has been in the form of military action that it took last week in combination with the united kingdom. that has been upping the ante and all of this. what the us hopes will deter the houthis, but so far remains to b

special envoy for afghan women and girls and human rights of the state department. finally we have honorable michael sheppard, the assistant administrator of the bureau for asia for the united states international development. i want to thank you for being here today. your full statements will be made for the record and i will ask each of you keep your remarks to five minutes in order to allow time for members to ask westerns. i now recognize mr. west for his opening statement. >> chairman wilson, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the invitation to discuss the biden/harris administrations afghanistan policy. i would like to acknowledge the many americans who served and sacrificed in afghanistan since 2001 including members of this committee. almost 800,000 people deployed to afghanistan over the course of our 20 year commitment. over 2400 american servicemembers died in combat and noncombat causes in afghanistan many thousands of diplomats and other civilians and contractors also served and some paid the ultimate sacrifice. in the two years sin

there are 30 from cigar: the state department is refusing to respond to. ould like to enter into the record, mr. chairman. some of these" e d. and half of them are simple thee department could■2 fulfill today will you commit to these 30 out standing" this month? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have a chance to sit down with mr. sothcoe last week and talked about the corporation of the state department with cigar. his statements caught us by surprise because they were inconsistent with the october quarterly report that he issued noting that the state department is collaborating well with the n august of 2021 and today, we estimate that roughly 13,000 staff hours have been devoted to the health department with cooperating with cigar. there are pieces of my team, their entire job is to focus on cigar. there are of other parts of the bureau who's entire job is to support the work of cigar. it's incrediblyim the work that. and we'll continue to work with them. as for the speck 3 had looked at them before this hearing. i would be happy to take a look at this person

state department has recognized this, and in 2022 blinken establish the department's first subnationalcy unit, and appointed the first specialoe representate for cities and states diplomacy. i knew you guys all know nina, she's back there. yet nina a huge round of applause. fo she's a force. [applause] nina was a mayor, too, so she's the perfect person to head up all the mirrors to do that. givl leaders a voice in the global conversation, and last year that posted the first ever city some of the americas in denver. who all came to that? raise your hand pick if he didn't go ifye you got to go net year. it was fantastic. pleasure to introduce the one and only secretary of state antony blinken. come onn o friend. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you.q >> high. hello. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> great tog. be with you. >> we're so honored to have you. this is like a special treat, it really is. it is so nice to have you. just under windows, you should give, him a huge round of applause. he is the only secretary of state to come to the united states conference of mayors. we love you.us [a

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special envoy for women and girls human rights at the state department. and finally honorable michael shipper, for the bureau of asia, united states international development. i want to thank you for being here today your full statements will be made part of the record and i'll ask each of you to keep your spoken remarks to five minutes in order to allow time for members to ask questions. i now recognize mr. west for his opening statement. >> chairman mccaul, chairman wilson ranking member manning, thank you for the ability to discuss the biden-harris policies. i'd like to acknowledge the many americans who served in afghanistan since 2001, including members of this committee. almost 800,000 people deployed to afghanistan over the course of our 20-year commitment. over 2400 american service members died from combat and noncombat causes in afghanistan. many thousands of diplomates, development workers, other civilians and contractors also served and some paid the ultimate sacrifice. in the two-years since the united states and our allies completed our milit

but as state department spokesman, matthew miller said, it's not misinformation. this is just uh, untruths happening in the fog of war. they can't imagine that the israelis would actually systematically seek to deceive the public in order to create political space for what is quite clearly a genocide that includes the destruction and occupation of every hospital in northern guys and the ethnic cleansing of one point. 1000000 people possibly more, but it's very clear to anyone who's critic who has a critical mind then what took the true story of what took place on october 7th, has yet to be told. and mark my words, ashen, the mainstream press will one day pick up on the thread that i laid down and will be forced to investigate the orders to come, to carry out fratricide, by as rarely, commanders on his rarely citizens in order to prevent captains from going into the gaza strip. that's the worst fear of the is really military intelligence apparatus . and he is really political sphere. consider how many captains they had to give up for. glad. surely. the israeli sold

the state department has recognized this and in 2022 secretary blinken established the department's first subnational diplomacy unit and appointed the first special representative for the city -- for cities and states' diplomacy and know you guys all know nina. she's back. there give nina a huge round of applause. love you, nina. she's a force. [applause] nipa was a mayor too -- nina was a mayor too. the team focuses on giving local leaders a voice in the global conversation and last year they hosted the first ever city summit of the americas in denver. who all came to that? raise your hand. hillary: if you didn't go, you got to go next year. it was fantastic. anyway. it is absolutely my pleasure to introduce the one and only, secretary of state antony blinken. come on out, my friend. [applause] secretary blinken: thank you. hillary: hi. [applause] hello. secretary blinken: good morning. hillary: good morning. we are so honored to have you. this is like a special treat. it really is. it is so nice to have you. just so everyone knows, you should give him a huge round of applause, he's the

and i'll invite myself to the state department. when i get back, people can watch that on the state developments website next blumenthal. thank you so much for coming and thank you. that's it for the show. and condolences from the whole team here are going underground to those bereaved by the ongoing violence in the middle east. we'll be back on monday with holocaust survive. i don't think everyone much a one of the worlds greatest trauma specialist and he'll then keep in touch. i will, i, social media is not sense in your country, and that's what channel going under warranty if you all normally don't come to us and you and all the episodes of going undergrad. so monday, the okay. awesome. the coast of guys, there was 3 civilians are killed when the idea of old when fire and a crowd, and that's after the locals heard the delivery of humanitarian supply that arrived in the waters nearby. we get comments from on a walker about the diet situation in the retail full of these continuous relations are happening, and those are relations w

that's what is the spokesperson of the state departments that many of those talks will not be easy. there's increa increasing criticism on the u. s. not only that, the biden administration is bypassing congress to keep sending weapons to israel also is a veto that the us use in the united nations security council twice to veto resolutions on c spires in gaza. so there will be a lot of talks and that will be held now in this the 4th trip. hi state. of course, a trip for anthony blinking in the region where it will meet as several count of ponds to talk about how to get h to gauze and also to prevent something that's many of fearing that this might broaden the conflict to the country. so either act as individual washington correspondent benjamin alvarez group. did they have benjamin? thank you. so let's go to a round up now of some of the we'll use headlines. whitehouse national security spokesman, john could, it'd be, says russia has begun firing north korean ballistic missiles into crime. us intelligence officials, safety on young has supplied north korea with me. 1000 launches we w

but as state department spokesman, matthew miller said, it's not misinformation. this is just uh, untruths happening in the fog of war. they can't imagine that the israelis would actually systematically seek to deceive the public in order to create political space for what is quite clearly a genocide that includes the destruction. an occupation of every hospital in northern guys and the ethnic cleansing of one point. 1000000 people possibly more, but it's very clear to anyone who's critic who has a critical mind then what took the true story of what took place on october 7th, has yet to be told. and mark my words, ashen, the mainstream press will one day pick up on the thread that i laid down and will be forced to investigate the orders to come to carry out fratricide. by is really commanders on his rarely citizens in order to prevent captives from going into the gaza strip. that's the worst fear of the is really military intelligence apparatus . and he is really political sphere. consider how many captains they had to give up for. glad surely. the israeli soldier

was this merely us state department propaganda?" to depict kissinger as somehow an unbiased neutral arbitrator between the two sides, or was the threat genuine? as we've previously revealed on palestine. behind the classified, liquid's leader netanyahu did later threaten bill clinton with tapes off his affair with monica lewinski an effort to secure the release of israeli spy jonathan polard. it is not beyond the realms of possibility that liquid saw to liquidate kissinger despite his services to the zionist cause. well i ask scott what he made of the reports that some members of the lacut party wanted to assassinate. in the 1970s, well apparently the report

the deputy secretary of state is of the most critical posts in the department. as the advance united states leadership and address multiple challenges and crises around the world, the state department was more important than ever. we must elevate our ability to compete with china while establishing strategic lines of court nation. ukraine, remains under a sold almost two years after putin's illegal invasion and exactly two months ago hamas launched a brutal attack on israel. this conflict endangers the security of the entire region and has made it a humanitarian situation in gaza were studies's mother challenges require strategic consistent and creative diplomacy. that is why it's critical we fill this role as quickly as wee can. i believe america's foreign policy to serve our national interest and must be driven by our values. promoting democracy, fighting corruption defending human right to these must be at the core of our agenda as we engage on the political stage. i hope you work to make sure these values are front and center. i have enormous respect for the

let's say you this gets back to what the state department is doing. resent in the united states maybe 15% of global emissions. so even if we did everythg homes 85% around the world. we're out there, john krir to fs forward to make sure that other country, other city, other states, are stepping up. sometimes national governments may be a little slow on the uptake.re cities come in. that's where states come in. if you care about, as we all do, thb pandemic, well, again, even if we did everything right in the united states, if you have a pandemic that's out there, and continues to be out there somewhere else, you're only as stro the chain. the state department is working every single day to strengthen global have what they need to prevent, or if not prevent, to deal with, the next pandemic, so it doesn't come here and&w these phones we carry in our pocket every day, the tech knoll now the a.i., the way they get used, by which they're used, they get decided in win doless rooms around the world with other countries. we're not only at the table, we're at the

but as state department spokesman, matthew miller said, it's not misinformation. this is just uh, untruths happening in the fog of war. they can't imagine that the israelis would actually systematically seek to deceive the public in order to create political space for what is quite clearly a genocide that includes the destruction and occupation of every hospital in northern guys and the ethnic cleansing of one point. 1000000 people possibly more, but it's very clear to anyone who's critic who has a critical mind then what took the true story of what took place on october 7th, has yet to be told. and mark my words, ashen, the mainstream press will one day pick up on the thread that i laid down and will be forced to investigate the orders to come, to carry out fratricide, by as rarely, commanders on his rarely citizens in order to prevent captains from going into the gaza strip. that's the worst fear of the is really military intelligence apparatus . and he is really political sphere. consider how many kept as they had to give up for god. surely the israeli soldier

the state department has has really worked diligently.y work a lot of overtime hours to catch up the process. still like 20 14 million passports. aaa travel expert paula twidale says international travel continues to gain in popularity, according to the state department in 1990, only 5% of americans had passports. but now it's nearly half. clearly we have international travel grow and has sustained its growth for the last couple of decades. and passport processing couldn't prove even further with the state department restarts its online passport renewal system. they did that as a test this year. they paused at, you know, to the backlog with think you're going to see it open up again to help facilitate them, that that process, that online system is expected to be available early next year. and senator warner predicts it will make a difference in processing times. it's dropped precipitously. and i expect even better results 1st quarter. 24 when the online portal goes live. but for now, the state department recommends planning well ahead, yo

alliance with our nato and g7 partners promoting economic growth and improving global health, the department of state must be are curating -- operating at full capacity. that means keeping morale up while upholding traditions of providing space for dissent within the department, it means fully sending a mission to africa and making sure nominees have relevant experience to lead effectively, it means being ambitious and consistent with resources. making sure the department notes diversity, equity, and inclusion from every bureau. it means getting our diplomats and civil servants the training needed to address cyber economics in the 21st century security challenges. mr. campbell, there is no shortage of challenges awaiting you. i want to thank you for your willingness to serve, your family for supporting you and i look forward to hearing your plans and helping lead the department to confront challenges ahead. with that, i yield to the ranking member. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. dr. campbell, great to have you here today and thanks for being willing to do this job. the past few years, the stra

it's important that the viewers understand gonzalieras, a polite had been highlighted to the us state department on many occasions. they were well aware of what has happened. he had previously said that it was highly unlikely that the united states would exchange him, that she's actually 7 victoria newland a hated his guts and that it was a funds people to suggest that he would be rescued or exchange in exchange for a i know the detainee on the, on the russian slash you for any inside that it was all likely to happen. now we know that as far back in august the 23 that matthew miller, the state department spokesman, was well aware of this. i guess i, you'll for the exchange with these ask the bill comes out on the run some questions to put 3 via greys on report of the him cause grave about the whole situation regarding some sellers and some a look at something else that we learned last night through a series of tweets by him that he had been tortured in the ukrainian prison. and he was now on a motorcycle with a broken rib trying to flee the hunt gary in border. and so i'm wondering, you know, if

state are not currently willing to support the return of these funds to my question is what is state department strategy here, and is there a disbursement date, and when was the last time the state talked to the swiss partner about this fund? >> thank you very much. the activities in the afghan fund are very important. i appreciate the question. on the board of trustees for the afghan fund, it is four individuals. the american is the treasury department -- really, it's the treasury department that leads on the afghan fund. it is correct that there has not been a disbursement. we want to be sure that we have absolutely, rock solid accountability mechanisms in place, so that any disbursement that is made is done so, again unaccountably, with the correct auditing in place. i refer to the treasury on the exact status of the fund. >> thank you. ms. amiri, do you have any thoughts on this issue? >> thank you. perhaps, my colleague at usaid -- >> mr. administrator. >> thank you usaid does not play a role in the afghan fund, so we refer to our colleagues at the state and treasury. >> i can say a bit mo

state department has has really worked diligently. they work a lot of overtime hours to catch up the process. still like 20 14 million passports. aaa travel expert paula twidale says international travel continues to gain in popularity, according to the state department in 1990, only 5% of americans had passports. but now it's nearly half. clearly we have international travel grow and has sustained its growth for the last couple of decades and passport processing couldn't prove even further when the state department restarts its online passport renewal system. they did that as a test this year. they paused at, you know, to the backlog with think you're going to see it open up again to help facilitate them, that that process, that online system is expected to be available early next year. and senator warner predicts it will make a difference in processing times. it's dropped precipitously. and i expect even better results 1st quarter. 24 when the online portal goes live. but for now, the state department recommends planning well ahead

one of the things the pentagon needs is support from the state department and the treasury department. as we've been pointing out there is $10 billion in sanctions waiver for iran remaining in effect. iran's oil shipments to china have been green lighted. no snap back of the u.n. sanctions on iran and no known strikes against a ship the iranians are using to pass intel to the houthis. do you expect much more to come and more broadly from the administration, not just the pentagon? >> i do. i do think that the administration is going to come together on this situation. it is very tenuous right now. the administration, with this kind of rush almost desperation to get into the nuclear deal when they first took office, i think they are re-evaluating that. i think that the entire element of this administration all arms of the government are focused on this and what they can do to get iran back in a box. if you look at all the little pieces that are out here, all the big pieces in the red sea, strikes on american forces in iraq and syria, the nexus of all this is iran. the united states is i

how does the state department interpret that statement? >> i think president biden put it best last night in his statement. when that the united states isn't going to hesitate to take further action if needed to hold these kinds of activities account to ensure that things like freedom of navigation and legitimate international commerce and international vessels are protected. >> thank you so much. >>> coming up, an extraordinary step in the migrant crisis. the military department doubles ouncen efforts to block federal law enforcement by accessing miles of the u.s. mexico border. the biden administration is taking their complaint to the supreme court. that's ahead. i think he's having a midlife crisis i'm not. you got us t-mobile home internet lite. after a week of streaming they knocked us down... ...to dial up speeds. like from the 90s. great times. all i can do say is that my life is pre-- i like watching the puddles gather rain. -hey, your mom and i procreated to that song. oh, ew! i think you've said enough. why don't we just switch to

and she hubbard, time she was at the state department that she have. what was the main thrust of the messaging coming out of the state department briefing? and we're just out of the white house briefing as well as i can. i cannot about 2 of their very simple as you would expect. the same message rate as you say. no indications of israel was involved. both joan could be the national securities folks, but that's what is going to cover the specs as in the state department where it's from fed. that's about the no reason to a rather believe a trace route to speak for its own actions. master matthew miller side of the state department, but then john covey also said, we're not in a position to confirm specific or thoughts on how it happened or who is responsible . no indication that is what i was responsible for, for the root assassination. which is interesting, give them 24 hours ago. and on the condition of anonymity, us officials did tell american media outlets the washing and plays the old times. actually, all of that israel was responsible and of the us

. >> so first of all, i loved working at the state department.oved my colleagues at the state department. i have enormous respect for american diplomates. i had enormous respect for my colleagues from other agencies as well and the book in addition to being dedicate today my three nieces which is perhaps the more conventional dedication, it's dedicated to stella, my assistant, a member of the foreign service, specialist corps. and she was born and raised in maldova during the soviet union and ended up marrying an american and becoming an american citizen and joining the state department. when putin invaded ukraine for the first time in 2014, i had arrived at post a few months earlier and there was a week's long span during the early invasion, osc was the only international organization to send monitors on the ground in ukraine and i was negotiating that arrangement and then helping, and i had late night secure video conferences with the white house almost every night for weeks and one night i was leaving at like sometime after midnight and stella

and the question is do you support as a member of the senate asking the state department mr. human rights violations may have occurred using united states equipment or assistance in this war. that's what the resolution does, nothing more, nothing less. this resolution is not prescriptive. it does not alter aid to israel in my way. it does not cut one penny of aid. it simply requests that the state department report on how u.s. aid is being used. the state department has 30 days to provide a report responding to the request. to my mind, madam president, this is not a controversial resolution. every one of us should want to know whether our u.s. military aid is being used in violation of international law or not. whatever your view on the war may be, it's a simple question. and i hope we can get widespread support for the resolution. now, let me say a word why in my view this resolution is in fact necessary. it is no great secret that the united states has long been very supportive of israel providing billions of dollars of military aid year after year after year. we also have p

and we know that from us state department reports ad 2019 outline this in great detail. now matthew miller, the state department spokesman, was on several occasions. asked about this and we're gonna have a listen to it. and you can see the uncomfortable position that they found themselves in when an american citizen is imprisoned in the allies, jane and brutal conditions that some of this and that, that's us can be learned last night for a series of tweets by him. that he had been tortured in the print in prison, and he was now on a motorcycle with a broken rib trying to flee the gear and border. and so i'm wondering, you know, if this is true, given the state department knew of his arrest and his detention. how has this been allowed to occur? we have a us citizen being arrest being detained and perhaps tortured in the prison of one of our strongest allies. well, you, you lost me with the perhaps, and if this is true, i think i'd want to verify those reports before i commented on alex, go ahead to problems. whereas the state of broadcasting, i think, i just want to verif

and in fact, he had worked with the state department.he president travels on a diplomatic passport. so protocol that you always advise the consulate or embassy in the city you're going to. so there was advance notice of this. it wasn't like he was trying to train to go in cog like he said on the first trip in fact its interesting. another cool thing they did for me here, they brought out his passport that he used for this trip. and one of the interesting things about it is bass's on it best didn't get her own passport. she's on the amendments page and i have a pictures. pictures of the passport in the book, but generally at the time, husband's wives would have a single passport passport. yes. one more. you know there was no the question is whether, you know, you didn't see any secret service and there was no secret service on trip that didn't come in until after kennedy assassination in 63. so they had no security to speak of although it was a little bit like harry excellent adventure when the mayor of these towns would hear that harry t

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state department has has really worked diligently. they work a lotwof overtime hours to catch up the process. still like 20 14 million passports. aaa travel expert paula twidale says international travel continues to gain in popularity, according to the state department in 1990, only 5% of americans had passports. but now it's nearly half. clearly we have international travel grow and has sustained its growth for the last couple of decades and passport processing couldn't prove even further when the state department restarts its online passport renewal system they did that as a test this year. they paused at, you know, to the backlog with think you're going to see it open up again to help facilitate them, that that process, that online system is expected to be available early next year. and senator warner predicts it will make a difference in processing times. it's dropped precipitously. and i expect even better results 1st quarter. 24 when the online portal goes live. but for now, the state department recommends planning well ahead,

state department has has really worked diligently.work a lot of overtime hours to catch up the process. still like 24 million passports, aaa travel expert paula twidale says international travel continues to gain in popularity, according to the state department in 1990, only 5% of americans had passports. but now it's nearly half. clearly we have international travel grow and has sustained its growth for the last couple of decades. and passport processing couldn't prove even further with the state department restarts its online passport renewal system. they did that as a test this year. they paused at, you know, to the backlog with think you're going to see it open up again to help facilitate them, that that process, that online system is expected to be available early next year. and senator warner predicts it will make a difference in processing times. it's dropped precipitously. and i expect even better results 1st quarter. 24 when the online portal goes live. but for now, the state department recommends planning well ahead, your ne

state department has has really worked diligently. of overtime hours to catch up the process. still that like 24 million passports, aaa travel expert paula twidale says international travel continues to gain in popularity, according to the state department in 1990, only 5% of americans had passports. but now it's nearly half. clearly we have international travel grow and has sustained its growth for the last couple of decades. and passport processing couldn't prove even further when the state department restarts its online passport renewal system they did that as a test this year. they paused at, you know, to the backlog with think you're going to see it open up again to help facilitate them, that that process, that online system is expected to be available early next year. and senator warner predicts it will make a difference in processing times. it's dropped precipitously. and i expect even better results 1st quarter. 24 when the online portal goes live. but for now, the state department recommends planning well ahead, your next tri

out by non-governmental organizations, that is, it is a kind of the agency is the core of the state department organization is similar to the work of embassies, which are networks of embassies that are located around the world, they with the help of other us agencies, first of all this is the us agency for global media, this is the us agency for international development, they have a huge network of non-governmental organizations affiliated with the us agency for international development around the world, not only american, but foreign, like... which are donors of american aid, people receive salaries from the us government, so they broadcast the american point of view in their region, while the ngo may be registered in a third country, and thus we will not know that it is an american ngo, but the money is received from american taxpayers, and since the americans pay, they dictate the agenda, so almost everything... eastern europe in the eighties, during this period, which means when the task was set to create a dissident movement, this is exactly one of the main tasks were this organization,

about the woman who we heard delivering the pronouncement of the court, joan donoghue, former state department official -- though she is not representing the united states in this, she represents the court. she was in the state department under president obama. >> and she is one of the judges, one of 17 judges on the bench. two are ad hoc. 15 permit judges who ruled in favor of all of the measures that have been sought. her term expires on february 6. so she won't be with the court after that. it is very important this decision not just be a split court. you can tell by the breath of it of the 17 judges, that on most of the issues, it was 15 versus 2, 1 being the ugandan judge and the second being the israeli judge. in some cases, 16 the one with the one, ironically, the uganda judge. amy: why the ugandan judge? >> it is not entirely clear why. it is clear why the israeli judge but what is more important is the fact that we see this court has overwhelmingly decided in favor of south africa, overwhelmingly determined there is plausible risk of genocide. it becomes paired of upon the world commu

gonzales father, emailed the state department constantly. i heard from, from, from several people every week, every couple of days. what are you going to do for my son? how are you going to help my so they knew what was happening. the fact is people liked victoria knew when and victoria herself wanted him dead. and now he's dead. yeah, he was definitely like julius on inconvenient to the state and the narratives to manufacturer consent for, for more time and time again. we see this the story line. don't go anywhere, daniel, i got a lot more questions for you. coming up next, we'll get into diplomatic precedence in standard operating procedure. when americans get locked up abroad, we'll discuss it when we return with daniel mcadams to type the m. o will be right back. the on the who seemed wrong. just don't have to shape out the application and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will support, we choose to look so common ground the the welcome back to the m. o i manila chant, hollywood, a listers like claire danes have d

thanks to nearly 42 million dollars in grants awarded by the state parks department. those funds will go to 8 different communities throughout the state, including 3 in our region. 9 acres in floor. the florida area of sacramento will see a new dog park disc golf course basketball and pickleball courts and more. also a new skate park will be added to van buskirk park in stockton and there will be a new park built in knights landing. hope this afternoon if your new year's resolution is to improve your health, you're not alone on this fitness journey. i think we all want to get a little bit more healthy. a new forbes study reveals 48% of adults say improving their physical health is their top priority this year. but it's an all too familiar story. a couple months after the ball drops ambitions are lost or feeling guilty for not sticking to our new healthy lifestyle. but 24 hour fitness has some tips on making your new exercise habits. stick. and you want to start by finding workouts. take a look at your screen that you enjoy and building a routine from there. it may take